i would use it for school since amazon now does textbook rentals. i could also use it as a remote for my htpcs running xbmc. and my wife would love to use it in the kitchen when she is cooking to look up recipes on it instead of going in the living room to look them up.Reply

I've never owned a computing device smaller than a desktop PC, due to my somewhat restricted budget and "need" for gaming capabilities, home-built PCs are the only thing I've ever owned. Yet, with the explosion of consumption content available online and increase in power of portable devices, the ability to check email, check a website, or any other common everyday task I use a PC for on a portable device is very appealing.

So, in short, the Tab would become a piece of "furniture" on the main level of my house, probably in the kitchen. Available as a tool for anyone to use as they see fit.Reply

I'd use it as a mobile office on the go. And of course, sitting in an accessible part of the house it would be great for reading or browsing the web. Also, I know a couple boys who'd love to play Angry Birds on it.Reply

You know I'd really like to get my hands on one of these but can't really afford one right now... I think this would be great for running my movie reviewing website- it'd be very cool for me to be able to design the site and post reviews from it. Plus, my old laptop broke down so now I'm working from home. Reply

I am currently working on my BS in Computer Security. I would the web interface for accessing my school's site. Also, I would like to mess around with an Android tablet to test the security of it. I might even write a few apps to use it for testing the security of networks. I would probably also use it, with the B&N app or the Kindle app to replace some of my textbooks. Good luck to all, but I hope you all lose. I wanna win.Reply

I'd use it both for personal and professional reasons. I'm a developer who targets Android and iOS, and I have an Android phone, iPod Touch, and iPad. I'd really like to start developing for Honeycomb tablets, but I don't have the budget right now.

I'd probably use it to replace the iPad for personal use as well. I love the iPad for my daily blog reading and as an eBook reader, but I'm much more comfortable in Android in general.Reply

This is my entry. I would use a tablet like the Galaxy tab as a "Companion" system to offload simple tasks, such as internet browsing while I am watching TV or playing a game, or to use to keep myself entertained while waiting at the doctor's office or the mechanic's. Reply

I'd use the tablet as a highly portable compute device to take with me on extended travel for work. That way I don't have to take a personal laptop and a work laptop. I could just take a work laptop and this thin and lightweight tablet. It would make getting through security easier too.Reply

I would mostly use this tab for my classes to not carry around my XPS16 (back pain relief)I would also like to use it as an always on light computer for browsing the internet or streaming videos from my pc's at home. It would also be great for travelling, which i've been doing a lot interning with Intel in California and going to school in Florida (GO GATORS!Reply

If I had one of these I could pretend I was actually busy at work... while playing angry birds. But it would be a daily fight with the kids over who would get to use it... they have the project research angle I do not have.Reply

Hmm, subsonic, youversion bible, taking notes with springpad, and not having to worry about the clicky clicky of the laptop keyboard while doing so. I would also use it for recording music and as a test bed to develop a guitar effects app for android.Reply

I build a lot of robotics hobby projects (pure nerd, and I love it) and would love to have a tablet I could write a remote control app on to control my various robots. Eventually I'd like to mount a camera to the front of the vehicles and stream it to the tab.

I'm also in the middle of building a Christmas light automation system (like those beer commercials you see with the Christmas light shows going in sync with the music). I'd love to write an app for a tablet that would let me control and build new song sequences on a honey comb tablet. Would be easier to carry around the yard then a laptop for sure!

Also a web surfing/video watching device I can use in bed while my wife is asleep would go a long ways =)Reply

I would give this to my mother. She is in her 60's and the complications of a PC are just too much for her. With the entire family using Social Networks to post family pictures, she no longer receives pictures of her grandchildren in the mail. This would allow her to view the memories she no longer receives my mail...Reply

What really caught my attention about the Galaxy Tab 10.1 was its thinness and panel quality. I can't imagine listening to a lot of music on it, but it would be great for web browsing on the go, and the ability to display 720p videos natively on a large display (by mobile standards) is a huge bonus. I WANT!!Reply

As a computer science major, It would be awesome to have a device to write software for that runs on Android. The opensource world has helped me in learning so much from so many amazingly talented software authors out there.Reply

I'm starting college soon you see, and I would hate to lug around my old HP laptop. Now that Amazon allows the renting of textbooks, the Galaxy Tab would be the ideal "all-in-one" to have. I could use it for multimedia, education, and... reading Anandtech :]. Reply

I'm a programmer at a small video game studio, and I'd use a Tab as our designated testing device for developing our games on Android, as well as bringing it to conferences for demoing. We've been eagerly awaiting an Android device with the graphics muscle to start closing the gap with iOS in the gaming arena!Reply

I'd use this to (hopefully) replace my aging, three-year-old MacBook. I'd also probably use this as a tool in my live sets as an electronic musician. I could also use it to remote into my home computer (thank you, LogMeIn and TeamViewer) whenever there was an important paper I forgot in my sleep-deprived drive to school.

You know, I always coveted the iPad, then the iPad 2 as my dream tablet. After playing with a demo unit, the Galaxy Tab 10.1 is now my dream tablet especially now that Google is putting more development muscle behind Honeycomb.

As a hardcore Apple fanboy for years, feeling the pull of a Droid tablet over the iPad is completely unexpected. If Samsung manages to get other people the impression they've given me, Apple might have a problem.Reply

Looks like a sleek little device. I'm more used to iOS, but it'd be fun to give android a whirl and see how it does for my relatively light usage. Browsing and shows, maybe some games seem to be what I'd use it for.Reply

I'd seriously use this for everything but the hardest core of computing. I'm looking into developing on Android and with the current state of the tablet apps, I think there's a lot of room to expand on what's available and would really enjoy making some apps for it.Reply

I could easily see this tab replacing the aging Dell laptop that's become a permanent fixture on our living room coffee table. My wife constantly uses it while we watch TV. After hours hunched over on the laptop, Facebooking and whatnot, she'll invariably complain about lower back pain. If anything, the Tab figures to be much more comfortable to use in our living room.Reply

I would use it as the majority of people use tablet: consumption-based usage but I would also finally try development for Android platform, I need some divergence from my mostly .Net development...Reply

I know i sound like a skipping record, but a nice tablet could really free up a lot of space at my desk in the lab, us poor grad students get some major hand me downs. Blurry CRT and 1.4 ghz Pentium 4....oy!Reply

I'd give this tablet to my mom. Her 58th birthday is this Sunday (the 31st) and it'd make a great gift. She has a laptop but she complains that it's too big and heavy to carry around with her, so this would really fit the bill!Reply

I would use this to replace both my paper notebook and giant laptop during work meetings. Would be so much easier if I could have all my notes in the same place and only had to carry a small little tablet. Plus my boss raves about his iPad all danged day, so I would love to rub this in his face.

Winning this tab would actually help with my job immensely. I do a lot of IT consulting and showing the power of an on-the-go tablet in business environments is a very requested thing these days - I'm almost tempted to buy the Toshiba one based on featureset but having an Epic I love Samsung's screens (even if they do tend to be a bit slow with officially updates - thank xda forums for helping there).Reply

It would be for general purpose home and school use. I would keep books on it, particularly my electronic copies of school books and role playing rules, browse while on the couch, maybe watch some netflix with it on occasion.Reply

I'm almost always around a wifi hotspot whether at work, at a coffee shop, or at home. I need access to email and calendars and stuff but I don't like pulling out my laptop every time because of how big and bulky it is (not to mention how I have to plug it in regularly to keep the battery charged). Switching to a tablet would make my life sooo much easier...Reply

I just recently purchased a Toshiba Thrive. I wasn't overly concerned about aesthetics as much as ports and functinoality. I know it's on the chunky side, but I'm pretty happy with it.

But now that I have laid out cash, winning a Galaxy Tab would go to show that my purchase was badly timed. Kind of like when I bought a DLP television in mid 2006 and then it seems 3 months later, major manufacturuers abandoned DLP for inexpensive and better quality LCD and plasma TV's. I should have waited a few more months.

So by purcahsing a Thrive, I'll win the Galaxy Tab thus proving that I have a knack for throwing away my money with the worse possible timing. Yet win or lose in less than 3 months time a superior tab with Tegra 3 and 64GB of storage will be commonplace for $199 purchasable at the local Walgreen's next to the pocket calculators and pencil sharpeners or Amazon will have some super duper self branded tab reeking of the same Kindle awesomeness that has yet to hit the android tablet segment..Reply

Lots of activities:Read books with KindleListen to MusicBrowse the internet, without a hot laptop on my lapTest Remote Terminal to see how well it works and if it is worth the training time for my customers.Reply

I'd use it to watch videos around the house, browse the web more comfortably, and get work done more discretely at committee meetings. There are a lot of circumstances where the battery life, size, and design of a full notebook just don't fit the bill.Reply

I took Robert C Martin's advice about always learning.... I spend about 20 hours a week reading technical books on Safribooksonline (varios topics, mainly programming) using the free account I get my university. I'd use the transformer for reading the tech books online, it would make MUCH easier for me. Reply

If I were to win, I'd use a Galaxy Tab to immerse myself in Google Android's Honeycomb. I have an iPhone but I have never tried Android and I would love to have a Tablet.I would use it to share pictures with my family, listen to music, browse the web, and expand my reading library!Please pick me! :-)Reply

When our 6 year old laptop died, my wife and I decided to buy a tablet to share between the two of us. She's an artist, and wanted something with a wacom digitizer, so we did some research and found a good deal on an Asus EP-121.

This Windows 7 based Asus tablet has been a big hit with our whole family. My wife, and kids, have fallen in love with it. Unfortunately, whenever I go to use the tablet I can never seem to find it..

This galaxy tab would hopefully increase our tablet supply enough that I might actually be able to use one once in a while.Reply

I would use it to replace my textbooks for grad school. I have a bad back, and carrying those textbooks around really weighs on me after a while. Getting a tablet and etextbooks would be much lighter! Reply

I would use a tablet for wide variety of things. Work emails for when I'm not at my desk, listen to music, surf the web, play video games or watch Netflix or YouTube during breaks or when I'm hanging out at coffee shops while waiting for my buddies to show up (I'm usually the first one there).Reply

If I won, I'd use this to in the following ways: - Help teach my daughter via educational games (and slowly acclimate her to gaming) - Pass away the boredom while on travel (planes, trains, but no automobiles) - Replace my wife's aging laptop that she really only uses for simple browsing.Reply

If I won the galaxy pad I would create a custom mount for it and put it in my car as a headunit. It would be in portrait mode and output sound to the whole vehicle as well as being able to pick up internet from wifi if needed. I would probably end up writing my own android application to have a good music interface that would be safe and easy to use in the car.Reply

the Tab is a great Tablet! I have my desktop computer, but I am certainly behind the times and need something to take with me on the go. So if I win a Tab, then I will simply use it all the time to stay connected and have bragging rights with my friends, unlike now, when I am so far behind the curve that it is pretty pathetic :-(

I am looking to replace my ancient Mac G5 laptop with something that is marginally more functional (and maybe is actually portable.) I mostly use the Mac for browsing and writing, but it is of limited use as a portable device since the battery decided that its operational lifetime was about five minutes.Reply

In a world where the internet controls you welcome the the galaxy that gives you back the control. Wherever I am I can get to the internet, email, notes, docs, games, picture taking and many more. The Galaxy tab 10.1 gives me the ability to do all on a large pure HD screen and slimness and lighter than any tablet on the planet. Reply

I would give it to my mother who's permanently disabled from a cryptococcal meningitis infection so she can perform basic functions like checking email and browsing the web from her chair. She would also love it as a book reader and a media player, especially since she uses special music to treat her tinnitus.Reply

Read to my son, watch Netflix, use PlayOn, waste time playing games and take to classes since I've re-enrolled in school at 34 years of age and my i7 laptop battery doesn't last long enough to complete a class! Reply

...would be great for watching the non-race (practices, quals, etc) F1 footage on the train. As it stands I don't have time in the schedule to enjoy that sort of thing, and it's not exactly easy to enjoy it on my phone.Reply

that I am not going to use this tablet for research. Gah, who am I kidding, the first app that I would get for it is Mendeley! Reading journal papers on the go, in a queue, on the pooper would be awesome.Reply

I would use to new Galaxy Tab to sit and look pretty along side my Galaxy Epic (custom rooted btw...) and then use the 4G wifi hotspot on the Epic to provide internet access for the Tab so that I can use my LogMeIn ignition app to remote into the computers at work and provide tech support for all of my users, with out having to carry around my laptop. Would kill time with angry birds and catch up on my YouTube subscriptions (FPSRussia and FreddieW !!). So that's how I would use the Tab... So please sir... may I haz?

Pinky: What we going to do with a Galaxy Tab, Brain?Brain: Same thing we do with everything, Pinky. Try to take over the world!Pinky: With androids?Brain: Why not?Pinky: They make my bottom hurt but then I get to sit on this big donut! ha-ha-haBrain hurts him, and rightly so...Reply

I'd use the Galaxy Tab 10.1 to replace my old (and physically failing) Dell Inspiron e1505 for web surfing, email and content consumption where practical. That's really it. As a disabled person, I think a good tablet would be easier to use than the roughly six pound Dell. Hope I win. (Don't we all?)Reply

Okay, so it'd really be for my wife. I'd use as a replacement for our Toshiba laptop that she constantly complains is too heavy to lounge on the couch with. I'm not an avid Android user, but she's had a bit of experience as an Epic 4G phone owner.Reply

I will use it to disassemble and show how they make a better device than the iPad then generate a list of patents which the iPad infringes on in order to help Samsung Patent stomp Apple from trolling.Reply

I would use this tab as a resource for patient education at my job. Having all medical information available in one place as opposed to pamphlets, books, dictionaries, etc would be incredibly useful for my patients.Reply

If I was a lucky winner, I would use it for my detailing business that I have to keep track of appointments, and most importantly show customers before/after pictures. The display is very big and bright and very nice for viewing pictures. And lastly, would use it for keeping hours, which is very handy too (instead of using pen and paper).

Since I don't own a laptop, I will use it for my mobile needs like, surfing the web while i'm relaxing at a near by park with WiFi access, at the cafeteria and when traveling in a bus and a plane. Also, to show off my photos and home made videos to my friends and family. Thank You.Reply

+ Some bed time reading/bed time game playing+ Watching flash videos on most of the websites I frequent, including the great Anandtech.com+ Video calling my friends with Google Talk voice and video (since Honeycomb is the only tablet OS which currently supports that).+ Using it as a personal navigation and entertainment assistant in the car and save my phone's battery life a bit.+ Most other obvious uses like web browsing, emails, time killing, chat etc.Reply

I'm a fresh new intern and I'd use it to access our EMR (electronic medical record) on the go during rounds. It'd be a real easy way to pull up X-rays, lab results, etc. on the go rather than relying on the hospital's COWs (computer on wheels) because those things have been going for more than a year and their batteries are pretty much dead. Also they harbor various bacteria on the keyboard/mouse I'm sure.

Having a tablet to access our EMR (via Citrix Receiver) will make morning rounds more efficient, and also allow me to stay up to date w/ Google Reader (hence Anandtech!) and my Gmail. Please think of me!Reply

AS a college student I would like to say that I would use this tablet computer for note taking in class but everyone knows that college students trying to take notes on any form of technology in the classroom just doesn't work because we always find some way to distract ourselves so what I would actually use this tablet for would be to play angrybirds at a higher resolution than my droid and use it to read great books like Pride Prejudice and Zombies.Reply

I travel a lot for work so I would use it a lot at airports and on planes to catch up on shows and movies, haven't tried a tablet for reading books or other things, just smartphone which I don't enjoy browsing much due to the 4 inch screen, too small imo so the 10.1 inch tab would probably fit that bill. Better then pulling out the beast os a laptop cf-30 provided by my job. Thing is rugged for sure but way too bulky / thick / heavy and much dated internals.

Dang Anand, Just kind of made me make myself depressed there about not having a sweet tab to use during my tavels ;)Reply

This would be a great test bed for some distributed computing apps targeted at mobile devices for cancer research that I've been working on as a researcher at Vanderbilt University!! I'd probably watch movies on it too though ;)Reply

I recently constructed a Time Machine using some copper tubing and an old particle accelerator I had laying around. If I won this galaxy tab I would use it to pilot my space ship so that I could fly into space to meet the aliens and show them my Time Machine. Then I would kill them and go back in time to before I killed them so that I could kill them again.Reply

I'd use it as my personal assistant at the local hackerspace. Then I wouldn't have to print of piles of data sheets while I work on projects. Instead I could just read them all from an awesome honeycomb tablet. All the while surfing the web for cool project ideas to work on.Reply

This Tab would become a device for seducing women in the subway. I would let them touch it, tell them stories of how the Tab was once a naive young child, loving and losing and loving again. They would ooh and aah, and share their own tales of woe. Then I would tell them I am dying in six months, but have never felt the erotic embrace of a living person. Reply

I need a Galaxy Tab to help me keep my sanity through those long agonizing moments in the waiting room, or in the car with my kids. I would also like to monitor my septic pump with it so I can be sure my basement won't flood the next time it rains.Reply

I wish I could say I had a noble cause for this. Simply put, I want to know what it is like to surf the web with a tablet in one hand, an ice cold drink in the other, while gently swaying in a hammock.Reply

I've been a long time reader but never made an account. I would love to have this for school. I used a netbook until the keyboard literally broke and a fan burned out. Would love to switch to a tablet form factor.Reply

I would love a tab and am too poor to justify buying a tablet that I haven't been able to see yet as my friends went for the Xoom :-( which isn't all that great but the Samsung looks great but the lack of ports worries me. BUT I REALLY REALLY want it against better more cautious judgement. I would use this alot too as my laptop screen now has a crack in it from something, so yeah portability would be nice again as my desktop is not mobile.Reply

This would be a great complement to my desktop, which currently wears a few hats as home office PC, gaming rig, and media PC. Having a small, portable device like the Tab would be great for those times when I want to check email, look something up online quickly, chat with friends, view media and media-rich websites, etc. and can't use my main desktop PC. Hope I win!Reply

I would use the tablet as a gift for my wife. It would replace her ancient XP laptop that takes about 5 minutes to boot. It would also introduce her to the world of android as she doesn't get to use my phone very often. Two other family members have the ipad, so this would show them what a real tablet is like.Reply

I would use this tablet to work out a set of instructions to connect a bluetooth or USB android tablet to VHF radios and transmit location (gps) and status information. Much of this can be done using laptops or PCs but much of the software is rooted (no pun intended) in the DOS-Win98 worlds. The underlying comm capabilities are there but not the higher level integration for applications.73Reply

my gf's dad is a big time apple fan. if i win, id use it to show him there are more to tablets then apple!!! Then id show it to all my friends at college because nothing says cool like new shoes and new tech!!!Reply

I would love to have the Galaxy Tab because I've never had a tablet. As far as what I'd use it for, that would be simple. Do ALL my blogging, posting, dl/ul, gaming, reading, etc. that I could. This would be AWESOME to see how this would compare to my laptop & desktop in terms of functionality and ease of use. Would be great to win but if not, this is still a great thing you're doing. Good luck to everyone.Reply

Please, I need to win this contest! I want desperately to be a robot, and I would duct tape this to my chest and display computery things upon it to appear much, much less human. Also, I would like to have it make beeping and blipping noises, so the naysayers would be relieved of any doubt.Reply

I work for a non-profit organization and would use the galaxy tab for work. I do a lot of field work and often end up with tons of scraps of paper with notes on them. The tab would allow me to be more productive, thus providing better service to those my organization serves.Reply

Want it to replace my laptop for taking on family trips, and work. take it geocaching too for those hard to find caches. And always make a few friends and coworkers jealous with ipad flash videos ftw!Reply

If I had a Honeycomb tablet I would use it to tie all of my devices together. While traveling it would be a great place with a lot of screen real estate to view my media. I think I would put it to great use!Reply